Little Flock, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Little Flock, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Little Flock lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Little Flock — the short answer
Little Flock, Arkansas: USDA zone 7a, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 5K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Little Flock's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Little Flock's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Little Flock
Each reading below is measured for Little Flock itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLittle Flock runs about 229 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLittle Flock sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Little Flock is in
Little Flock sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Little Flock's own centroid rather than borrowed from Benton County.
What Grows in Little Flock
Every plant below cleared Little Flock's own zone 7a and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Little Flock?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Little Flock
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Little Flock. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DON'S APCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- KMART #7284Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- NABHOLTZUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- STOP & GO 102Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WHITE HAWK CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- CASEY'S GENERAL STORE #3314Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- FUEL FARM #8005Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- CASEY'S GENERAL STORE #3406Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- BEAVER LAKE AVIATION #8038Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- NORTHWEST ARKANSAS SHEET METALBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- BEAVER LAKE AVIATIONBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- WALMART AVIATION #8005Brownfields · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Little Flock's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Little Flock.
Total Sites
433
within ~10 miles of Little Flock
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Little Flock
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Little Flock
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Little Flock, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Little Flock — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (29 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Little Flock
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Your land is one point inside Little Flock
Everything above resolves to Little Flock as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Little Flock Average
Little Flock Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Little Flock
- ●One soil character for all of Little Flock
- ●Frost dates read at Little Flock's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Little Flock's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Little Flock
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Three things about your lot that Little Flock averages can't show:
We read public map data around Little Flock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Little Flock average
How we know this about Little Flock
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Little Flock’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Little Flock
When does frost risk typically end in Little Flock?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Little Flock typically lands around Mar 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 15.
When is the first frost in Little Flock?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Little Flock typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Little Flock?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Little Flock sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 26, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Little Flock?
The federal record around Little Flock is a meaningful one — 433 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (247), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Little Flock?
From about Oct 10 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Little Flock's scale — its 7a band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Little Flock's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Little Flock’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Little Flock's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,806 acres it covers and 433 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Little Flock's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Little Flock's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 9 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 433 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Little Flock, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Little Flock's boundary and the 4,806 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Little Flock's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Little Flock's 4,806 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Benton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Benton County
- The growing challenges every Arkansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arkansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Benton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Little Flock's 4,806 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Little Flock you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,806 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Little Flock-wide figureread your own land →
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